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omfg!!

Every day I wake up and am depressed that "in your cock, in your cock, in your cockpit" was a fake lyric.

I listened to Ultraviolence in full, then Born to Die/Paradise. I timed it out so that Blue Jeans was the last song I heard and Video Games was the first of 2020, which couldn't have been a more perfect choice.

NFR! was kinda the first album I listened to this year (I listened to Black Sabbath earlier but kept falling asleep partway through so doesn't count )

Lots of breakdown about how "Happiness" is inferior, but not as much breakdown of why "Cinnamon" is better. 

ALSO Why was this not a poll?? Let the people speak!

Why I wanted to ask about the other peeps who aren't from California is because, at least for me, my intuition's been firing on and off in the vids for more reasons than one, bc growing up around here, it's definitely a lot more immersive in experience. And I fucking don't wanna sound territorial or condescending, but I think what she's doing is taking away the glamour from what Hollywood offers, she moves past it, and gives u an average free day of what it's like in LA. Not to make anyone feel unincluded at all, but it's incredibly local-feeling. This is what the culture's downtime in youth can be like sometimes. 

 

Totally agree on this. I was surprised that someone said it didn't look like California because as someone who has lived in LA for several years now, that looks so LA. You are totally right though, its definitely a more day-in-the-life version of it rather than how its usually depicted. Some of the shots in HIAB look like they were taken near my neighborhood to be honest, and they may very well have been since I live on the westside. 

Got my Spotify Wrapped! Marina was my #2 artist, and Handmade Heaven was my #1 song of 2019! It was my #3 song for the "decade" (really just mid-2017 onward).

@@HoneymoonDaddy 

Off the top of my head, beyond what's already been posted:

1. Sunset & Vine - its a pretty normal looking intersection though
2. Mel's Dine In on Sunset - her Honeymoon billboard was here
3. Chateau Marmont - really close to Mel's drive in. not sure if you can go inside if you aren't staying there, but you can see it from the same angle as the photo in the UV booklet from Sunset Blvd
4. Korean Friendship Bell - you'll need a car, its a little far away, but its a cool place in its own right and is where the scene with the boys in MTWBT was filmed AND you can see the cranes/industrial area of the Long Beach Harbor which is where Fuck It, I Love You was filmed
5. Malibu house - from HBTB, you will drive right by it if you drive to Malibu on PCH, but honestly it doesn't look at all like it did in the video. plz don't break into her house
6. Santa Monica Pier - you can see the Ferris wheel in the UV trailer. in general, Santa Monica/Venice Beach will feel like you are walking through the West Coast video
7. Bel Air - you can drive by and see the sign/entrance to go in. its a neighborhood so there's not really much to see
8. Larchmont blvd - where the cover of LFA was shot
9. Neptune's Net - its in Malibu, the place she referenced in The Greatest as "Dennis' last stop"
10. Wilshire/Pico Blvd - pretty basic roads but she does reference them
11. 101 Freeway in Hollywood - this is where she steps over in Doin' Time
12. Amoeba Records - she's done a few shows here

1. Bonus: Cha cha matcha  , Alfred's Coffee in West Hollywood (she was papped there once just hours after I was there rip), your local spin studio 

I'll have to dig up where the intersection she filmed that one scene in Shades of Cool is, someone posted it not too long ago.

The ONE thing @@HoneymoonDaddy and I search for ages for was where Honeymoon was filmed with the scene on the hill. We thought we found it but it wasn't quite it unless the area changed a lot since 2015. So if anyone knows where this is please let us know 

I’ve been in a really bad place lately and honestly I just *get* Love + Fear now. It feels like a baptism in fresh, cold water. Electra Heart was great when I was a teen that found refuge in simmering on my emotions, but adult me who is desperate to feel happy and loved gravitates to Love + Fear

I feel like the LDR that I fell in love with is receding and disappearing more and more all the time, and probably never really existed, a la ‘Vertigo.’ THAT LDR interested me, the subsequent LDR(s) interest less and less.

I've been in denial over this since probably Honeymoon. I think NFR! has been the tipping point. Two months after its release and I'm listening to.. Born to Die/Paradise 

The idea that she might have never really been the person I looked up to during the Born to Die/Paradise era is pretty crushing. But there's just no one else that comes anywhere close for me to get into? Maybe that's why I stay in denial.

I binged ep 2-8 yesterday after giving up on a friend I was supposed to watch the season with ugh 

I love the 80s so I am probably biased but I like this season a lot. I definitely acknowledge that it is flawed and honestly the ghost counselors are so pointless and so one-track minded that they are annoying. But the season overall is so fun - though I do think they need a little more horror after the first few episodes for this to really be American Horror Story. Emma Roberts has won me over this season though and in ep 8 she looked so much like "Ride" Lana   they also better show this music festival they've been hyping up.

Also a small nitpick, but its 2019 can we really stop equating pentacles to Satan.  Also the Richard Ramirez character in general is so annoying at this point, I'm ready for him to die for good. 

I was listening to Lover (I know, rip) and noticed that False God has some of the industrial noises that are in the Cinnamon Girl outtro

"The Pretty Ones" and "Wasting Time" 

I really love "After the Moment" too. I listened to her so much last fall when The Loneliest Girl came out, I need to get her back on my rotation!

I saw her open for Marina in LA and she won me over! I tried to listen to "Bitch" a long time ago but just couldn't get through it. But going back and listening now - I don't know how I didn't like it? The first like 20 seconds are heaven.

I didn't know at the show that she was performing a bunch of new songs, but I remember a few that I really liked that aren't apparently released (one being "Rings A Bell" which is out now obviously). So I am so happy that I found a new artist and have something to look forward to from her! There was another song that really caught my ear, the lyric that stood out was "all I have is the music" - I think that one is still unreleased.

It is very obvious seeing her live that she is incredibly talented 

I personally don't visit Love + Fear that much these days, but a few thoughts:

1. Handmade Heaven alone is worth the whole album, at least for me.

2. Seeing her perform these songs live, I just got the vibe that she wrote these songs to herself and that the concepts in them are really important reminders to herself about how to think about life. It felt very personal watching her perform specifically the Love + Fear songs and that somehow made me at least better understand why she made an album like this, even if it didn't make me enjoy the songs more. So while I don't really listen to them, I support her making those songs because I think she made the music she needed for herself.

I'll wait until the next album before I decide if she's lost me or not in terms of a hardcore fan. 

I bet Lana won't pass up the opportunity to sing about her "boy in blue" since she likes to put the word "blue" in like every song. It's almost.. too perfect.

This is cute, she looks happy and that’s all anyone can want. I just hope this doesn’t cause fans to start randomly coming to this high school to try to see her. I always feel bad that she probably can’t go places more than a few times because people follow her everywhere.

I put out a demo trailer of a mini album I'm going to put out in a few weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_YyBXnM8b4

Really excited! Its not perfect but I really love it and learned so much about myself when making it. 

The guy at the gate said it was pushed to 8:30

Ok as someone who is so late right now because it took 30 fucking minutes to make one left turn by the Bowl, I actually appreciate it lmao

"Echoes" is now officially my favorite song of all time      all 23 minutes of it

I see this on Genuis but don't think I've seen it on here but she definitely says: "playing games of levitation" which kinda goes with this witch thing she has going. I think the video clips of her and her friends meditating on the rock will go with this song.

Hello, is anyone else going to The Greek Theatre in LA tonight?

 

It's my first Marina concert and I've enjoyed and admired her music since TFJ and I'd like to know what the best time may be to go

and if anyone is going to try to meet her afterwards. I've not been to a concert since 2011. I'm 27 year old guy and I am going with my boyfriend,

 

This is personal and I've struggled with substance abuse lately and I'm not relying on the show to fix that but as an introvert, I'd appreciate any help with the questions about the show I have and I'll start joining conversation her to break the habit of isolating on social media lol.

 

I'm listening to Buy The Stars now typing this which sounds cheesy but I haven't appreciated that song really until now. lol thanks for tolerating this random post, regulars on here

Probably too late now, but I’m here! I’m in one of the VIP boxes with my boyfriend

Omg I am going to see her tonight and I am so so so excited! I'm probably just going to sob the whole time. I've been a fan since like really late 2012 but she paid Atlanta dust since then on her tours (until last month) so I have not seen her yet in all my years of being a fan. I live in LA now and am excited to be seeing her at the Greek theatre! The setlist looks so promising too (except wtf how is "Teen Idle" a Love song lmao)

I feel like it's the Freak/Cherry of NFR. Don't get me wrong, it's a good song, she sounds amazing and I enjoy it but in my opinion it doesn't fit with the rest of the album, sonically. Especially the outro. I'm glad we have it but in the context of the record it feels a little out of place.

Oh interesting. I do know what you mean, except I always love "this type" of song on her album! They end up being my favorites. They are like her ultra sexy songs. I call them her "red songs" because they just give me a red-lounge-late-at-night vibe. I'd be down for a whole album of songs like this.